1921 Smrt Smail-age Cengica Čengića Ivan Mazuranic Death Croatia Poem Epic

СМРТ СМАИЛ-АГЕ ЧЕНГИЋА By Иван Мажуранић (Ivan Mažuranic) (Death of Smail-aga Cengic) - In Serbian language.

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Mažuranic is above all the beloved poet of Smrt Smail age Cengica—"The Death of Smail-aga Cengic", 1845. This epic poem is full of memorable verses that have become embedded in the national memory of his people, who cherished it as the treasure of a "Homeric" wisdom praising such epic virtues as fortitude, fidelity and justice. The tale is based on an assault in Montenegro, when a petty local Muslim tyrant was killed, as an act of vendetta, in an ambush set by Montenegrins. Mažuranic's poetry transformed a rather prosaic act of tribal revenge into a hymn celebrating the struggle for freedom—acted out under the hostile forces of fatality.

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Београд, С. Б. Цвијановић, 1921. 3rd edition

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Pp.: 105 + /3/ + folded map of Montenegro +/3/ Size: 19 x 13,5 cm.

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Binding: Original cloth binding with giltstamped spine cover. Sticker on the front cover. Minor damage along the edges, minor damage on the joints. Condition: Pen inscription on the flyleaf, pencil inscription on the title page, paper browned due to paper ageing, minor tear on the bottom of pp. 17-18 (5 mm), dog-ear on pp. 51-52.

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